The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-12
FLORIDA.


Gainesville is to have a new hotel
Many buildings are going up in Titusville
The crops in Sumter county are reported
good.
The st. Augustine post Office is being en-
larged.
Near Lake City there are eighty acres in
tobacco.
The yellow fever scare over the State is
suhsiding.
Arcadia has a temperance society of forty
members
Fort Meade is suffering with an epidemic
of measles.
Ocala enters the contest with a 32-pound
watermelon.
Jacksonville clerks are working for the
half-holiday.
Fernandina will be the next to have
water works
Vessels pass over the ST. Johns bar with
out difficulty.
Rice birds have damaged the oats in JEFF
ferson county.
The Baptist church of Plant City has re-
ceived its new organ
The Y. NJ. c. A. Of Gainesville is in a
prosperous condition.
Florida railroads are finding out that
cheap excursions pay.
The rush to Pablo Beach this summer
promises to be immense.
Mr.. II. H. Deane, of Sanford, exhibits a
radish Is inches long and of large size.
Plant City is so healthy that some of the
doctors are leaving. They can't make a
living at their profession.
The Edgewater Yacht Club of Clearwater
are making preparations for a grand re-
gatta, picnic, ETC., on the glorious Fourth.
A new military company is to be organ
lied at Palatka as soon as the list contains a
sufficient number Of names Many men of
many years have signed the roll.
The Orlando shirt factory is running a
full force and on full time. Mr.. HAYNES
states that his orders are keeping up in spite
of the season of the year, and that business
is good.
The annual meeting of the Florida Press
Association will be held at Fernandina, Fla.
ON Wednesday, June Is, 1887. Members
will please take notice. A full attendance
is requested.
A gentleman lately arrived at Oakland
with the finest herd of Jersey cows ever
seen in the State. The same gentleman will
take charge of the hotel, which will be kept
open all summer.
The Palatka Musicale is the latest society
move in Palatka, and one in which the
members take great interest. A rare treat
is promised at some day in the near future.
The talent at hand is excellent
The Hillsborough Board of County Com
missioners, at their meeting on Tuesday, APP
propriated 81, 900 to be- placed to the use of
the County Board of Health for the purpose
of preserving the health of the county.
j. b. Speer, of Oakland, has twenty acres
in corn which win yield twenty-five bushels
of corn to the acre. This is on hummock
land, but Mr.. Wise has some on pine land
that will make fifteen bushels to the acre.
Grading began last Monday, at Clay
Spring, on the Alabama, Florida and Allan
tic railway, This road will be about $50
miles in length, running from Birmingham,
Ala, TO Biscayne Bay, ON the South Allan
tic coast.
G. B. Bray, of Oakland, has returns of
forty cents by the wholesale for his water
melons, which he sold in Jacksonville He is
so much encouraged by his success this year
that he is resolved to try it OH much larger
scale next year.
The Orange Belt railway will be running
construction trains to Clermont. nine miles
west OF Oakland within ten days, and the
entire distance Of 40 miles between Oak
land and Point Pinelas viii be ready for
passenger traffic by November.
On Monday Judge Harrison, of Tampa,
issued license to marry to Nathan Tanner
Miss eva ~ las WIS lLle
first license issued under the new constitu-
tional amendment changing the power to
issue licenses from the County Clerk TO the
County Judge.
A certain old lady living near Reddick
station, who cannot read, is very much in
censed because a news agent on the Florida
Southern last Friday sold her Jim Cum
mings" and several detective stories, repre-
senting them to be Bibles, which she bought
aud carried home for her daughters TO read.
A post office has been ordered established
at Chetwyne, Sumter county, Philip r.
Deitz, postmaster. The post Office at Rut-
ledge, Alachua county, has been discon-
tinued, there being no candidate. II. b.
Paxton has been appointed Postmaster at
Sorrento, Orange county, vice A. $. Mat
lack.
The pestiferous parasite known as the
Hessian fly in this country has about used
up the melonacro says the Plant City
Courier. They attack the leaves of the
vine on the underside, tho leaf curls itself
up and the vine soon dies But for these
ne.la the Inalon crnn here uLnllld ha,.n hon-,